{"id":871,"date":"2009-09-02T23:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/09\/02\/intonation-and-spelling\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T23:00:46","slug":"intonation-and-spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/09\/02\/intonation-and-spelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Intonation and spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular Vftp readers will know that intonation is one of my favorite topics. As I was catching up on favorite blogs, I came accross a remarkable series of posts on flute intonation by my friend, the contemporary flute virtuoso Helen Bledsoe. This <a href=\"http:\/\/bledsoe22.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/intonation-iii-spectre-of-spectralism.html\">one in particular hit home-<\/a> if only everyone spent so much time thinking about how to tune one note before a first rehearsal. In the process, I think she manages to finally explain why I am such a lousy proof-reader (especially of my own writing).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Whether this works in context or not, I love working with combination tones. Scientists are still not in agreement as to what they are &#8211; but it is a wonderful example of how our brains work &#8211; how they &#8220;fill in the blanks&#8221; of the overtone spectrum. I wonder if this is the same phenomenon that allows transistor radios to work? Only the upper partials are projected, the brain fills in the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve noticed that I&#8217;m one of those people who can read things like this, hence my spelling problems, most likely. (Thanks to my like-minded Uncle T for this text):<br \/>\nfi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too<br \/>\nCna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.<br \/>\ni cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervti sy, it dseno&#8217;t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check it out.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/09\/02\/intonation-and-spelling\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular Vftp readers will know that intonation is one of my favorite topics. As I was catching up on favorite blogs, I came accross a remarkable series of posts on flute intonation by my friend, the contemporary flute virtuoso Helen Bledsoe. This one in particular hit home- if only everyone spent so much time thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}